GoldBot Spammers

Is Blizz gonna do anything about this anytime soon ? Do they even wanna do something about it or they just dont care ?Bots r killing game way 2 fast economy went to ashes i do understand every time blizz ban some bots those same ppl buy new acc and start over = more money for blizzBut they should ban them on daily basis that aint that big problem just join trade chat every 30 sec some spam can ban 100 per trade chat each hour = more money for blizz less crap for us players

We do understand that this is an annoying issue, but please keep reporting these spammers.

We know that some of you are under the impression that nothing seems to happen after reporting a spammer, which I presume is because you do not get to see what happens behind the scenes after you have submitted a spam report. But please know that the reports you submit are actually of great help to us, and a great number of spammers do get removed as a direct result of player reports.

when the report spam function is going to work? Now its just giving some error i dont remember and its annoying when i say i want to sell something and 5 sec later its 3 pages behind a wall of text from gold selling spammers ...

Well the report spam is bugged, it returns an error as soon as I post it. Than I report for harassment (and note that I'm reporting for spam) and I get an error message after a minute that the report was not successful.

Please do something about it. It's like this for a week or more already.

For reporting bots, I would recommend that you use the webform/email address linked to in this sticky-thread: eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5071567383

Come on Vaneras, you're in an MF run and you have to keep tabbing out to report someone via e-mail to the support team, over just using the in game report which should be working and it's a little discouraging that it isn't working, I do not understand how it has taken weeks to resolve and I presume the maintenance will be fixing this issue?

The problem is I see gold spam about every 30 seconds so I would never be playing, I would always be tabbed out doing report e-mails to tab back in to tab out again and report. I apologise for being rash but that's not my job, I do want them dealt with but I shouldn't have to go to such lengths to get this sorted.

For reporting bots, I would recommend that you use the webform/email address linked to in this sticky-thread: eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5071567383

Come on Vaneras, you're in an MF run and you have to keep tabbing out to report someone via e-mail to the support team, over just using the in game report which should be working and it's a little discouraging that it isn't working,

Well the report spam is bugged, it returns an error as soon as I post it. Than I report for harassment (and note that I'm reporting for spam) and I get an error message after a minute that the report was not successful.

Please do something about it. It's like this for a week or more already.

Very true... I look rather silly now as I thought the fix was in place already :-(

It should be fixed in patch 1.0.6a, which should hopefully be out this week if all goes well. We will of course appreciate if you could let us know if it still doesn't work after the patch.

For reporting bots, I would recommend that you use the webform/email address linked to in this sticky-thread: eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5071567383

Come on Vaneras, you're in an MF run and you have to keep tabbing out to report someone via e-mail to the support team, over just using the in game report which should be working and it's a little discouraging that it isn't working, I do not understand how it has taken weeks to resolve and I presume the maintenance will be fixing this issue?

The problem is I see gold spam about every 30 seconds so I would never be playing, I would always be tabbed out doing report e-mails to tab back in to tab out again and report. I apologise for being rash but that's not my job, I do want them dealt with but I shouldn't have to go to such lengths to get this sorted.

This. Why has this been ignored.If you [Blizzard] actually cared about us reporting the bots, you'd make it so we could do it ingame. If you really think I'm going to tab out to report them, you're having a laugh. Have you heard of the path of least resistance?

For reporting bots, I would recommend that you use the webform/email address linked to in this sticky-thread: eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5071567383

Come on Vaneras, you're in an MF run and you have to keep tabbing out to report someone via e-mail to the support team, over just using the in game report which should be working and it's a little discouraging that it isn't working,

I know it is not ideal, I really do. It is my hope that we will get a more elegant solution for these types of of reports in the future.

I personally have a note-block in front of my pc that I use to quickly note down the BattleTags of suspect players, and then I report them after I am done playing using the aforementioned webform.

doubt anyone here will waste time tabbing out, it should be so simple to right click and repport bot / gold spammer.As long as its not really working, i think most people will asume that you(Blizzard) dont really care, which is kind of sad to watch...

doubt anyone here will waste time tabbing out, it should be so simple to right click and repport bot / gold spammer.As long as its not really working, i think most people will asume that you(Blizzard) dont really care, which is kind of sad to watch...

Yes, it's normal that people want a fast and easy way to report bot/gold spammer while playing - when people detect it. If this task would be easy and fast, it should be more efficient.

I did consider the option of noting them down and then e-mailing them all, seems like a little less work, however the option I have gone with is to merely block communications until the report button is fixed, this is also not ideal but it stops me seeing their spam, it also removes friend requests from botters.

The friend requests could easily be monitored and banned, same person friends more than 10 people in one day you go and check the comments from those requests, they are a bot you ban them.

The solutions to beat the bots are very basic and very realistic with todays (and 20 years agos) technology so I do wonder how they manage to exist in the game.

Good luck on the battle with them, I will state if the team had the approach (and freedom to have that approach) that most of the players would use towards botters there wouldn't be any left.

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Sorry for seeming like we are having a go, we (or I) aren't, we just want the issues solved and from botters to scammers this game gets a bit of a bad name which we would like to fix, thank you again for responding.